Hello all,
It has been a long time since you heard from me and since then I have been on a roller coaster of emotions.  In the past month we have sung at Cottonwood Christian Church, and Northside Community United Methodist Church, just to name a couple of the wonderful engagements that we have had.  The Lord has truly blessed these churches, and has blessed our quartet by their love and friendship!  The reasons for the cancellation of our Meridian Towers concert today are two-fold:  They now have no neighborhood committee to organize such an event, and on Monday July 6th my father William H. Shields, a resident of Meridian Towers was killed in an automobile accident.  Dad was so special to me, but also to our quartet, and we sang him a song yesterday before he was laid to rest.  Many people never get to know their father as a friend, but I did, and I know this separation is but for a little while.  We will; however, be singing as planned on Sunday night at Brazil First Christian Church at 7 PM.  Dad was planning on attending this concert, and my friends at FCC have been so loving and gracious to our family through this past week, that I believe we must continue to do what God has called us to, my dad would expect that, and we will sing in his memory and continue the work that he believed so much in.  So we hope to see a full house on Sunday- let's celebrate dad's life and exalt the name of Jesus with all that is within us!

John- CVQ lead